Learn at your own pace from a variety of step-by-step tutorials and videos that will help guide you through creating or revising documents, presentations, multimedia files and other types of files to make them accessible for all learners.
“It is more efficient to design content to be accessible than to make the content accessible after you've created it. As you become familiar with the process of creating accessible content, addressing accessibility concerns from the beginning will become easier to do.”- Deque University
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- Step by step tutorial
- SUNY accessibility week microsoft word video
- Creating an accessible syllabus video
GSA Government- wide IT Accessibility Program
GSA Government- wide IT Accessibility Program has created 13 video modules to teach about the basics of documentation accessibility. Each video is between 2-6 minutes long and focuses on one specific topic regarding document accessibility such as headings, lists, creating tables, color contrast, and hyperlinks (just to name a few) walking you through the steps of how to use these features in your word documents.
These modules are a great starting point to learning how to make your content accessible.
- Step by step tutorial
- SUNY Accessibility Week Powerpoint Video
- Accessibility Power Point Templets - (Download these templates to your computer and access them in the design section when you need to create or update a presentation.)
GSA Government- wide IT Accessibility Program
GSA Government- wide IT Accessibility Program has created 13 video modules to teach about the basics of PowerPoint documentation accessibility. Videos are an average of 3 minutes long and focuses on one specific topic regarding PowerPoint accessibility such reading order, color, formatting columns, images, embedded video, and hyperlinks (just to name a few) walking you through the steps of how to use these features in your PowerPoint documents.
These modules are a great starting point to learning how to make your content accessible.
Captioning makes audio and video content more accessible. All videos that are uploaded to the internet including Brightspace need to be captioned. The campus supports a self-service model for captioning. This means that faculty are responsible for captioning their own teaching-related video content. Some free services include:
- Why captioning is important
- YouTube step by step tutorial to machine generated captions and online captioning editing
- Otterai - (Offers 600 free minutes a month of recording and transcribing meetings and lectures.)
- Teams - Live captioning during a Teams meeting (This will capture not only the organizers voice but everyone who is participating.)
- Powerpoint - present with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint - (Note: If you do not see the subtitle setting in PowerPoint contact CTS helpdesk. They may need to install a newer version of PowerPoint.)
Zoom- Live captioning during a Zoom
Zoom provides live captions as well as a live transcript that allows viewers to save the transcript to review for notes.
- YouTube accessibility how-to videos
- Accessibility training and courses from Deque University
- Improving PDF Accessibility
- Color contrast ratio tool - (1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women are affected by some form of colorblindness, the most common difficulty being between red and green. When creating presentations, charts, and graphs please be mindful of your color choice. To quickly check what color combinations work well together use the color contrast ratio tool.)